Tag Archives: Hi Records

OTIS CLAY-TRYING TO LIVE MY LIFE WITHOUT YOU.

OTIS CLAY-TRYING TO LIVE MY LIFE WITHOUT YOU. Recently, I was listening to a compilation of Stax Records music, 3000 Volts of Stax, and came across a track by Otis Clay called Come To Me. This set me thinking about how great a soul singer Otis Clay was. I have long been a fan of …

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OV WRIGHT-THE BOTTOM LINE.

OV WRIGHT-THE BOTTOM LINE. The album that I am now going to write about, is one that I discovered when crate-digging, many years ago in a record shop. This album is OV Wright’s album The Bottom Line. Wright released The Bottom Line on Hi Records in July 1978. However, many people will never have heard …

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AL GREEN-IS LOVE.

AL GREEN-IS LOVE. Al Green released Is Love in 1975. At that time, his career was perceived as being in decline. The sound that Green, and producer Willie Mitchell, had carefully created, and became the Hi Records sound, had been widely admired up until then. However, in 1975, this sound was seen as stale and …

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